This digital training program focuses on enabling young women to achieve digital skills through Digital training. The program targets girls and young women in Dar es Salaam between 18 and 35 in mindset powering, skills transformation, linkages to resources, and cultivating an enabling environment for young women’s economic rights and justice.
The Launchpad Tanzania continues to leverage digital technology to facilitate the scaling of youth, girls, and women by enhancing the digital skills training that promotes the growth of the digital economy. In this, we planned on training 36 girls and women for three months, from January to April, through our Digital Tanzania program. The next cohort will start from July to October this year when another 36 women and girls will be admitted for digital training.
The Launchpad Tanzania ensured that girls and women not only acquire merely theoretical knowledge about digital use but also practically use available tools and skills in day-to-day operations. The team has successfully conducted different activities both online and offline just to reach as many women as possible.
The Program
Developing digital skills is critical both for job success and to participate fully in a digital society. Although young people have been called “digital natives", most of them still lack sufficient job-relevant digital skills to fill vacancies. According to a recent ITU report (Measuring Digital Developmental: Facts and Figures 2021), 40% of individuals in 40% of countries surveyed reported carrying out an activity that requires basic digital skills in the last three months. Tens of millions of future jobs in the online economy will require far more advanced digital skills. As such skills become increasingly important for employment, substantial “talent gaps" may emerge between workers proficient with information and communication technologies (ICTs) and those lacking ICT skills or familiarity LP Digital Tanzania has launched a pilot program to train women from the age of 18-35 years old for the digital economy in Tanzania and beyond.
We offered 6 SPOTS for FREE for each of these courses;
- Coding - 2 months
- UX/UI design - 2 months
- Digital Marketing - 1 month
- Content Creation and Management - 1 month
- Graphics and 3D design - 2 months
- Virtual Assistant - 1 month
The program was intense and it was 2hrs per day X 3 days a week for 3 months and required commitment, consistency, and completion for one to be certified. At the end of the program, Tranees received a certificate from LP Digital and any one of these Coursera/EDX/Alison (LP Digital paid for these certificates upon completion of the courses) The program was held at the LP Digital Offices in Sinza Dar es Salaam where trainees had access to trainers, and facilities such as computers, and WIFI. We did not offer any allowance as this in-house program where LP Digital continues to push for digital inclusion and the digital economy in Tanzania.
ADMISSION PROCESS
Trainees were randomly selected from the application they have done from the Google form we provided whereby the duration of the application was two months and the pieces training begin on 23rd January 2023